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Senate and House committees began hearings this week on the President's civil rights bill, the first skirmish an arduous legislative battle that most likely will last through the torrid weeks of mid-summer and into the cool of autumn. At this point the future of the bill remains unclear, with the outcome contingent on several variables: the force and intelligence of the President's leadership; the strength of the Southern senators plotting to filibuster the bill to death; the attitude of the important moderate Southerners, both in and out of Congress; and the policies of the ever more militant...
Most of Manhattan is edging into summer this week, but along Seventh Avenue it is already autumn. Buyers from all over the U.S. are making their seasonal march into garment-district showrooms to rummage through, inspect and buy fall fashions. In a $13 billion industry that survives and thrives on change, the biggest change of all is in the corporate shape of the industry itself. Women's wear, a business of some 4,700 firms in which the mean has always been two or three partners with a $25,000 bankroll, is busy styling a whole new rackful...
...have carried out our studies of psychedelic (mind-manifesting) materials at the University from the autumn of 1960 until the end of 1962, when the association of our research with Harvard was formally terminated. Consequently we organized I.F.I.F., through which we have continued our research activities. During the period when the research was affiliated with Harvard, we worked safely with over four hundred subjects in a series of studies at the Concord Reformatory, within the local religious community, and at the University. These studies explored the effects of altering states of consciousness on (1) the creative process, (2) the religious...
...traditional toss-up were Grandfather King Gustav, 80, bearing a bouquet and Mother Princess Sibylle, 55. Christina kissed them goodbye, jumped into a flame-red Chevy convertible to tour streets jammed with well-wishers, then whizzed along to a champagne party. The fun-loving princess-bound for Radcliffe next autumn-looked like a girl who would fit right in at Cambridge...
Missouri's Painter Thomas Hart Benton had a longstanding date with several canoes. He wrote: "Last autumn, after a canoe trip in the Ozarks, I asked an official of our Missouri State Conservation office to set me up a spring survey of our major clear water streams. As I initiated this venture, as canoes have been assembled at various points, guides and camp equipment hired and plans made for meetings with area groups, I cannot very well ask for a postponement...